Virtualized Infrastructure Services Migration to Public Cloud
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need to migrate sensitive data from private cloud infrastructures to public cloud environments while maintaining the same level of trust, security, and resiliency as the private cloud, as public clouds offer benefits like cost-effectiveness and flexibility but may lack the security and reliability of private clouds.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates a virtualized operating environment in a public cloud based on an infrastructure services manifest, which includes application virtualization configuration data and private cloud infrastructure services, allowing for the migration of applications and data while ensuring the same level of resiliency and security as the private cloud environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data is migrated to public cloud environment, then cost and flexibility are improved, but security and resiliency may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtualized copy of the private cloud infrastructure services in the public cloud environment. The virtualized services catalog component maintains a catalog of virtualized services that replicate the private cloud's hardened infrastructure services, enabling consumers to access identical security and resiliency features while benefiting from public cloud cost and flexibility advantages.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the cloud infrastructure into virtualized service components that can be independently deployed and configured. The virtualized operating environment is divided into discrete virtualized services (storage, networking, computing) that can be selectively instantiated to match the original private cloud architecture, ensuring security and resiliency are preserved through modular replication rather than monolithic migration.
2Quantity of substance
If private cloud infrastructure services are migrated to public cloud, then cost-effectiveness is improved, but trust and security assurances may worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replicates the trusted private cloud infrastructure services as virtualized copies in the public cloud. The virtualized services catalog maintains configuration data that ensures the copied services provide equivalent security assurances, allowing consumers to migrate to cost-effective public cloud while retaining trust through functional and security equivalence.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms physical infrastructure parameters into virtualized service parameters. By converting hardware-based security controls into software-defined virtualized services with configurable security parameters, the system maintains trust assurances while enabling cost-effective deployment in public cloud environments.
3Adaptability or versatility
If infrastructure services are virtualized for migration, then flexibility and adaptability are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal virtualized services catalog that can be deployed across different cloud environments (private or public). The same virtualized infrastructure services can be instantiated in various configurations to serve multiple purposes, reducing the need for environment-specific complex configurations and simplifying the migration process.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtualized operating environment acts as an intermediary layer between the physical infrastructure and the applications. This intermediary virtualized layer abstracts the complexity of infrastructure migration and configuration, presenting simplified service interfaces that reduce overall system complexity while maintaining flexibility.
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AI summary
Implementations are provided herein for the migration of known infrastructure services, such as those existing on a private cloud infrastructure, to a public cloud environment, that enables private cloud operators to migrate their applications and data to a public cloud environment that meets the same trust, security, and resiliency standards currently employed in the private cloud environment. In one implementation, a private cloud can communicate an infrastructure services manifest to a public or hybrid cloud provider, which highlights the application and the data that will be moved to the public or hybrid cloud. The public or hybrid cloud can then use the infrastructure services manifest to establish an optimum virtualized environment containing the infrastructure services detailed in the infrastructure services manifest.